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管理学workshop:Meritocracy at Work: How Evaluation Fuels Inequality
发布日期：2021-12-10 12:00 来源：
主题：Meritocracy at Work: How Evaluation Fuels Inequality
主讲人：Fabien Accominotti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
时间：2021-12-10 10am-11:30am
会议方式： ZOOM会议号：952 7226 6465；密码：759353
链接: https://zoom.us/j/95272266465?pwd=MjBpYWRlaENWTCs0TGk3T2hGNVQzdz09Abstract:
In a variety of social contexts, evaluating merit or performance is a crucial step toward enforcing meritocratic ideals. Yet workable evaluations often obfuscate the empirical complexity of merit and instead reify it into artificially crisp and clear-cut constructs, such as ratings and scores. Here I propose that this tendency to reify merit fuels inequality in the rewards received by the winners and losers of meritocratic contests. To test this idea I explore how the reification of employee performance in organizations fuels inequality in employee compensation. I report the findings of a large-scale experiment asking participants to divide a year-end bonus among a set of employees based on the reading of their annual performance reviews. In the experiment’s non-reified condition, reviews are narrative evaluations. In the reified condition, the same narrative evaluations are accompanied by a crisp rating of the employees’ performance. I find that participants reward employees more unequally when performance is reified, even though employees’ perceived levels of performance and relative performance do not vary across experimental conditions. Further analyses suggest that reification fuels inequality both by reinforcing the authoritativeness of evaluation and by making participants more accepting of the idea of a merit hierarchy. I also show how reification interacts with traditional drivers of inequality, such as gender. These findings have direct implications for understanding the rise of inequality in societies characterized by the proliferation of reifying forms of performance evaluation.Biography:
Fabien Accominotti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His work explores the construction of status hierarchies and their role in fueling social and economic inequality. Empirically, He focuses on unsettled fields, uncertain markets, and organizations, which he uses to study how we come to view different people as unequally valuable and how this affects their outcomes. He has written on the construction of value beliefs in the art world, the emergence of cultural hierarchy as a dimension of social class in Gilded Age America, and processes of consecration that entrench faith in hierarchies of worthiness.
如有问题请联系郑老师enyingzheng@nsd.pku.edu.cn，孙老师sxiaoyan@pku.edu.cn
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管理学workshop:Meritocracy at Work: How Evaluation Fuels Inequality
发布日期：2021-12-10 12:00 来源：
主题：Meritocracy at Work: How Evaluation Fuels Inequality
主讲人：Fabien Accominotti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
时间：2021-12-10 10am-11:30am
会议方式： ZOOM会议号：952 7226 6465；密码：759353
链接: https://zoom.us/j/95272266465?pwd=MjBpYWRlaENWTCs0TGk3T2hGNVQzdz09Abstract:
In a variety of social contexts, evaluating merit or performance is a crucial step toward enforcing meritocratic ideals. Yet workable evaluations often obfuscate the empirical complexity of merit and instead reify it into artificially crisp and clear-cut constructs, such as ratings and scores. Here I propose that this tendency to reify merit fuels inequality in the rewards received by the winners and losers of meritocratic contests. To test this idea I explore how the reification of employee performance in organizations fuels inequality in employee compensation. I report the findings of a large-scale experiment asking participants to divide a year-end bonus among a set of employees based on the reading of their annual performance reviews. In the experiment’s non-reified condition, reviews are narrative evaluations. In the reified condition, the same narrative evaluations are accompanied by a crisp rating of the employees’ performance. I find that participants reward employees more unequally when performance is reified, even though employees’ perceived levels of performance and relative performance do not vary across experimental conditions. Further analyses suggest that reification fuels inequality both by reinforcing the authoritativeness of evaluation and by making participants more accepting of the idea of a merit hierarchy. I also show how reification interacts with traditional drivers of inequality, such as gender. These findings have direct implications for understanding the rise of inequality in societies characterized by the proliferation of reifying forms of performance evaluation.Biography:
Fabien Accominotti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His work explores the construction of status hierarchies and their role in fueling social and economic inequality. Empirically, He focuses on unsettled fields, uncertain markets, and organizations, which he uses to study how we come to view different people as unequally valuable and how this affects their outcomes. He has written on the construction of value beliefs in the art world, the emergence of cultural hierarchy as a dimension of social class in Gilded Age America, and processes of consecration that entrench faith in hierarchies of worthiness.
如有问题请联系郑老师enyingzheng@nsd.pku.edu.cn，孙老师sxiaoyan@pku.edu.cn
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